an anecdote            
                                          
 today it rained,  and i would go outside 
 i thought, so  i smoked a  pipe  and got 
 dressed,  and  outside   the   rain  had 
 turned  into snow so  thick that it  was 
 as dense  fog ... and then i went to get 
 the mail, but  there was a woman  and we 
 talked a little. now  because i was high 
 and it was snowing  so  funny and i  had 
 an umbrella against the  snow,  but snow 
 all over my face anyway, and  i wondered 
         about myself, and my life